The central government optimizes and perfects the guarantee mechanism of compulsory education funds and improves the guarantee level of public funds.

CCTV News:The latest news from the Ministry of Finance. This year, the central government optimized and improved the funding guarantee mechanism for compulsory education, and improved the level of public funding guarantee for compulsory education schools.

According to reports, this year, the central government further optimized and improved the funding guarantee mechanism for compulsory education, which is unified in urban and rural areas and focuses on rural areas. In 2023, it arranged 156 billion yuan, an increase of 11.5 billion yuan over the previous year, and supported local governments to implement policies such as exempting students from tuition and miscellaneous fees, providing textbooks free of charge, and subsidizing living expenses for boarding students with financial difficulties.

While increasing investment, the central government has further adjusted and improved policies to improve the level of public funds for compulsory education schools.　　

In terms of raising the benchmark quota of public funds per student in schools, with the approval of the State Council, the benchmark quota of public funds per student in compulsory education schools will be raised from the spring semester of 2023, from 650 yuan to 720 yuan in primary schools, and from 850 yuan to 940 yuan in junior high schools, supporting schools to implement the "double reduction" policy and improve after-school service level.

In the aspect of improving the subsidy level of public funds for boarding schools, on the basis of improving the benchmark quota of public funds for compulsory education schools, the standard of increasing public funds for boarding schools according to the number of boarding students has been raised from 200 yuan to 300 yuan, so as to ensure the normal operation of boarding schools.

In terms of adjusting the subsidy standard of heating fee, in order to alleviate the pressure of winter heating expenditure of schools in northern China, on the basis of implementing the benchmark quota of public funds per student and according to the final accounts data of heating fee of compulsory education schools, the subsidy standard of heating fee per student in compulsory education schools in relevant provinces was further improved.

It is understood that in order to implement the above policies, the central finance requires the provincial financial departments to supervise and guide the municipal and county financial departments to timely and fully allocate public funds for compulsory education schools according to regulations, and it is strictly forbidden to delay the allocation of funds, and it is strictly forbidden to occupy, misappropriate, intercept or deduct funds.